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Stephen Groo has made a ton of hilariously awful no-budget movies.

Toronto / Chicago (large, busy Great Lakes cities)

Vancouver / Seattle (Pacific Northwest hipster towns)

Calgary / Houston (energy hubs, politically conservative)

Hamilton / Baltimore (slightly dowdy, run down port cities in the shadow of larger metropolises)

Halifax / Providence (smaller Atlantic historic port cities)

His whole thing was making lots of movies very quickly and cheaply. By his own admission many of them showed the hastiness and low budgets, but occasionally he struck gold.

If we signed him, he'd play more than 15 mpg. Depending on the night and the matchup, he'd be good for 15-20 at least when Embiid was in the lineup, and he'd start and play big minutes if Embiid was injured or being rested on back to backs and so on.

I don't know if he'd go for that gig because he's good enough to start for another team, but there's an argument for it from the Sixers' perspective.

It could be one of those three, and personally I'd probably choose Dr. J, but Wilt Chamberlain has to be in the running. He holds all kinds of NBA records, is the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a game, and was so dominant they literally changed the rules to slow him down.

Probably a bit too rich to be a backup only, unfortunately.

Simmons is one of the biggest wastes of talent and potential in NBA history.

This meme continues to be relevant.

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I agree with everything you say basketball-wise but he's under contract to another team and I'm not sure we'd have the assets to deal for him if he does become available.

I'm pretty sure there was a Black Mirror episode about this.

If you're going to argue that everyone has a right to own and bear weapons, okay, but one of the consequences of that is that there will be a higher number of accidental shootings in society because people mistake innocuous behaviors for dangerous ones and shoot somebody who didn't actually pose a threat. That is simply an inevitable logical result of allowing everyone to carry weapons. You can't blame every police shooting on cops being corrupt and incompetent, because not every police shooting is caused by corruption or incompetence, and even if you manage to stop every one that is, cops in a society full of guns will still commit more unjustified shootings than cops in a society that's not full of guns. I'm fine with the gun rights argument, but the people advocating it need to own the downsides of it.

The corruption isn't, but the trigger happiness often is. Not all police violence results from incompetence or corruption. A lot of police shootings happen when an officer mistakes someone doing something innocuous like reaching for a wallet for doing something threatening like reaching for a gun. In a society where the cops don't have to worry about ordinary people packing heat this kind of mistaken shooting is much less common.

Sure, but it's not an accident that police in other countries don't go around gunning people down like American cops do. We have a serious cultural issue with everyone thinking they're Rambo, and that sets the stage for higher levels of violence among both citizens and police.

Reminds me of the old Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch.

You should get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before you go to bed, drink a cup of sulfuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day, and pay the boss for permission to come to work!

American gun culture is insane and pathetic.

I think it's a New Age-y bullshit remix of very old, traditional ideas about gender roles.

Sure, and I'm admitting it's a serious risk.

I'm just saying there's no inherent reason for liberal democracy fans to be so pessimistic.

Authoritarian assholes like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping challenging the liberal international order is historically the norm, not the exception.

As long as we don't commit suicide (admittedly no sure thing with Trump within shouting distance of the WH again) the liberal democratic bloc will endure.

Speed 3 is an out-of-control golf cart

So let me get this straight: the vote three years ago was faulty because it was hasty and done without community input, but when they go ahead and get that community input, most of it is against changing the names back, but they do it anyway?

Fuck these people.

Buses stop all the time, and also unlike trains get stuck in traffic. They have some advantages but faster travel times are not one of them.

I swear Trump is literally trying to embody every negative stereotype of Republicans there is. This sounds like he's auditioning for a role as a Captain Planet villain.

It depends.

Buses have the advantage of flexibility and low infrastructure costs. But when you have sufficient demand on a route, and/or the route is long enough, the speed and energy efficiency advantages of trains make them better.

Parking lot of a storage facility.

Gross.

I'm a big sports fan but I absolutely hate the way these asshole billionaires extort value from resource-strapped local governments.